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WHOI senior scientist named 2024 MacArthur Fellow

Benjamin Van Mooy receives “genius grant” for his research on biogeochemical networks and the impacts of climate change on ocean health

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Amy Bower describes outreach work.
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The team combined morphological analysis, CT-scanning, DNA sequencing, and microbiological studies to show that this isopod is physiologically and behaviorally adapted to use sargassum as a food source. (Photo credit: Daniel Hentz, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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Scientists aboard the Australian research vessel Aurora Australis studied the natural cycling of carbon and iron in the Southern Ocean in 2001. In this region, adding tiny amounts of iron can increase photosynthesis by marine phytoplankton, thus decreasing surface ocean carbon dioxide. (Photo by: Ken Buesseler, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Ben Santer. (Image at center courtesy of © Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Composite by Daniel Hentz).
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